how to thrive in stressful situations

about the course

We regularly find ourselves in situations at work or home that we find challenging and it can feel difficult to stay happy and calm in such environments.

Modern life seems to be increasingly demanding and living in a big city, even simple tasks like doing the groceries can become stressful! By applying Buddha’s teachings on training the mind we not only learn to keep a peaceful mind when faced with adversity but also come to thrive within it.

Just as a lotus is born from mud but unstained by it, so too our difficulties can be transformed into something we can learn to grow from. As Geshe Kelsang says: “If we respond to difficult external situations with a positive or peaceful mind, they will not be problems for us. We may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for the growth and development of our own happiness.” – How to Understand the Mind

the teacher

gen KELSANG dragpa

Gen Kelsang Dragpa is a Modern Kadampa Buddhist monk and the National Spiritual Director of the Nordic Region. He is the Principal Teacher at Nordic Kadampa Meditation Centre, Oslo.

He received ordination in 1993 from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche and is one of his most senior disciples. Gen Dragpa has taught extensively in the Netherlands, UK, Belgium and France.

His teachings are very practical and easy to understand. They offer profound solutions to our everyday problems.